Post by thread:[OT]Yet again Amazon US chose an unfortunate word

From my invoice for a recent Pic book purchase. Could they try any harder? The following items have been shipped to you by Amazon.com: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Qty Item Price Shipped Subtotal --------------------------------------------------------------------- Amazon.com items (Sold by Amazon.com, LLC): 1 Microcontrollers: From Ass... $47.24 1 $47.24 Shipped via Standard Int'l Shipping Colin -- cdb, on 11/5/2009

I am often bewildered by the contractions, abbreviations etc used to save space where the appears to be no shortage of space. We have a maintenance contract and the notification that we get that parts are on the way is filled part numbers, serial numbers, barcodes, work order numbers, parent item numbers, con note number etc but absolutely no human understandable description. We have to refer to our work order to determine what they are sending. Some equipment at our site is not directly managed by us thus no work order. When we get notification that a part is on it way and causes a fury of emails in an attempt to work out what they are sending and what they want back. A huge waste of time for the sake of a few characters. It really doesn't take much to write 9.1 Gbyte SCSI HardDrive Justin 2009/11/5 cdb <spam_OUTcolinTakeThisOuTbtech-online.co.uk> {Quote hidden}> From my invoice for a recent Pic book purchase. > > Could they try any harder? > > The following items have been shipped to you by Amazon.com: > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Qty Item Price Shipped Subtotal > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Amazon.com items (Sold by Amazon.com, LLC): > > 1 Microcontrollers: From Ass... $47.24 1 $47.24 > > Shipped via Standard Int'l Shipping > > Colin > -- > cdb, on 11/5/2009 > > > > -

My wife works for the County Assessor (determines property taxes). A few years ago her boss came around showing of a new imprinted pen that he got in the mail. It had his name and title. The title was "County Ass." Harold -- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com - Advertising opportunities available!

Justin Richards wrote: > I am often bewildered by the contractions, abbreviations etc used to save > space where the appears to be no shortage of space. > > [...] > > It really doesn't take much to write 9.1 Gbyte SCSI HardDrive Nope, but the below seems to be an attempt to coerce the information into a single line of some 70 characters or so. Could be the desire to accommodate the few that still hang on to mail readers that can't handle anything more complex than ASCII and hard line breaks every 80 characters... :) Gerhard {Quote hidden}>> From my invoice for a recent Pic book purchase. >> >> Could they try any harder? >> >> The following items have been shipped to you by Amazon.com: >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Qty Item Price Shipped Subtotal >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Amazon.com items (Sold by Amazon.com, LLC): >> >> 1 Microcontrollers: From Ass... $47.24 1 $47.24 >> >> Shipped via Standard Int'l Shipping >> >> Colin

In high school, I took a class called Analytic Geometry. On our report cards that year, it was abbreviated "Anal. Geometry" Sean On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Harold Hallikainen <.....haroldKILLspam@spam@hallikainen.org> wrote: > My wife works for the County Assessor (determines property taxes). A few > years ago her boss came around showing of a new imprinted pen that he got > in the mail. It had his name and title. The title was "County Ass." > > Harold > > > -- > FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com - Advertising > opportunities available! > -

>> Amazon.com items (Sold by Amazon.com, LLC): >> >> 1 Microcontrollers: From Ass... $47.24 1 $47.24 >> Hmm, sometimes Report Generators do just "cut" long lines to the given width: they can do better if a proportional font is used, but when you force them to plain text... I've seen this happening. Dario